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How AI Can Help Universities Boost Student Performance And Improve Retention

YoungUpstarts

by Sanjoe Jose, CEO and Co-founder of Talview. According to Navitas Ventures’ survey on digital transformation in higher education , which included students, edtech founders, and university leaders, the primary goal of digital transformation is improving student experience. Automation improves experience.

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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

While it seemed like a good idea and had the Navy’s backing, the founders got turned down for funding by companies, investment bankers and everyone, until they talked to John Parker. When they couldn’t find any customers they donated the ERA 1101 to Georgia Tech. Why Minneapolis/St. Serendipity came to Minneapolis-St.

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5 Effective Sales Tax Tips For Your Growing Business

YoungUpstarts

by Robert Schulte, founder and CEO of LumaTax . For example, in Georgia, affiliate nexus policy states that any out-of-state retailers who have over $50,000 in gross annual receipts from affiliate referrals have to collect sales tax for the state.

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The Texas Startup Manifesto

Austin Startup

The DEC and Trey Bowles in Dallas, Station Houston and John Reale in Houston, Geekdom and Lorenzo Gomez III in San Antonio, and Georgia Thomsen and Capital Factory in Austin. Texas has strong regional tech hubs and leaders in each major city. And of course Texas has Mark Cuban ! You can start by selling in the U.S.

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Georgia Tech Flashpoint Accelerator Demo Day, June 11, 2014

David Teten

For the third year in a row, ff Venture Capital is co-sponsoring the New York Demo Day for Georgia Tech’s Flashpoint Accelerator, along with HBS Alumni Angels of NY. Introductory remarks by Merrick Furst, Flashpoint’s Director and Distinguished Professor of Computing at Georgia Tech.

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TinyCo‘s Big Opportunity

Ben's Blog

Suli Ali, TinyCo’s co-founder is just that type of guy. A graduate of Georgia Tech and a veteran of the gaming business at an early age, he moved the TinyCo team from Brooklyn to San Francisco, because he understood the size of his opportunity and its implication that he could make no compromises in building his company.

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2017 Diversity Data for Capital Factory

Austin Startup

Of our 61 Accelerator startups in 2017, 8% had at least one Black founder, 13% had at least one Female founder, 16% had at least one Asian founder, 21% had at least one LatinX founder. Eugene Sepulveda was co-chair of the LGBTQ Council for President Obama. We need more Women founders getting funded.